Does non-patent reference measure university-industry collaboration?

Carey Ming Li Chen*, Hsin-Ning Su, Pei Chun Lee

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摘要

This study aims to examine the validity of using non-patent reference (NPR) in a patent document to measure the performance of university-industry collaboration. A total of 77,013 patents with number of assignees equal to two are retrieved from USPTO patent database and classified into different groups based on the type of co-assignation. The fundamental assumption in literature for justifying the use of NPR to measure university-industry collaboration is that university-industry co-assigned patents should contain the highest number of NPRs per patent than other types of co-assignations, e.g. university-university or industry-industry, because university-industry co-assigned patents are inventions substantially based on the collaboration between university and industry. However, it is found in this study that university-university co-assigned patents contain the highest number of NPR (27.18 NPRs per patent) instead of the expected university-industry co-assigned patents (20.13 NPRs per patent). Also, the industry-industry co-assigned patents contain significantly low number of NPRs (2.42 NPRs per patent). This signifies that the assumption in literature is invalid and the use of NPR to measure university-industry collaboration is not proper. Furthermore, NPR can also be added by patent examiner, this enhances the uncertainty when using NPR to measure university-industry collaboration generated by patent inventor or patent applicant. According to the above reasons, this study suggests that it is not proper to use NPR as an indicator to measure university-industry collaboration.

原文English
主出版物標題2012 Proceedings of Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology
主出版物子標題Technology Management for Emerging Technologies, PICMET'12
編輯DF Kocaoglu, TR Anderson, TU Daim
發行者IEEE
頁面1049-1053
頁數5
ISBN(列印)1890843261, 9781890843267
出版狀態Published - 1 11月 2012
事件2012 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology - Technology Management for Emerging Technologies, PICMET'12 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
持續時間: 29 7月 20122 8月 2012

出版系列

名字2012 Proceedings of Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology: Technology Management for Emerging Technologies, PICMET'12

Conference

Conference2012 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology - Technology Management for Emerging Technologies, PICMET'12
國家/地區Canada
城市Vancouver, BC
期間29/07/122/08/12

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